Thanks for visiting my website. I’m a Research Officer in Cognitive Science and AI at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In broad terms, my work addresses how to identify psychological kinds and compare them across humans, animals, and artificial systems. My current research concerns when AI models explain cognitive systems, and what similarities between models and brains support those explanations.

At LSE, I’m working with Alexandria Boyle on her UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project “Episodic Memory: Uniquely Human?”. Episodic memory is our capacity to vividly remember particular past experiences. The aim of the project is to understand the nature of episodic memory, its biological functions, and its potential distribution across non-human animals and AI systems.

Before moving to London, I worked in Israel through the Excellence Fellowship for International Postdoctoral Researchers (2022-2023). I was based in the Department of Brain Sciences and Cognition at Ben-Gurion University, where I worked with Nir Fresco. I studied philosophy at UC Davis (Ph.D., 2022, supervised by Zoe Drayson), San Francisco State University (M.A., 2014), and McGill University (B.A., 2011). I grew up in San Anselmo, California, pretty close to where the landscape photo above was taken (Bolinas Ridge Trail, 2022).

For more info about me or my work, please get in touch by email: a.g.schwartz@lse.ac.uk